Imambargah in Bannu city on Saturday and met with Shia ulema to discuss the Muharram security plan. DSP

meeting of administrators of imambargahs and organisers of majalis and processions was also held in

Join our Whatsapp channel KARACHI: Security has been beefed up across the province and more than 50, 000 policemen and Rangers personnel have been deployed to provide security for the main Ashura processions in all major cities and towns of Sindh, particularly Karachi, on Sunday( today). The government has decided to partially suspend cellular services in the areas that fall on the route of the Ashura processions.On Saturday, 9th Muharram mourning processions culminated peacefully in various cit

KURRAM: With another victim succumbing to injuries on Monday, the death toll from the Peshawar suicide bombing has reached 63. Aqiq Hussain Bangash, a resident of Parachinar in the Kurram tribal district, had sustained injuries and was under treatment at a hospital in Peshawar.... He was father of nine-year-old Faheem Abbas, a minor who had also died in the bombing last Friday.... Abbas had joined his father for the Friday prayers. With the death of Aqiq Hussain, the number of casualties from

Join our Whatsapp channel KARACHI: The provincial development working party( PDWP) has approved 12 development schemes worth Rs4.8 billion in different districts of Sindh. According to a press release issued here on Wednesday, the schemes approved in a meeting chaired by Planning and Development Board chairman Najam Shah pertain to the transport and mass transit, local government, irrigation and public health engineering departments. Rs262. 841m to be spent on improvement, extension of Gorakh Hi

LAHORE: Capital City Police Officer( CCPO) Ghulam Mahmood Dogar said 154 suspects were arrested for wheelies, hooliganism and aerial firing in different areas of the city on the Independence Day.He said special contingents of the Dolphin Squad and the PRU were deployed on the main roads and important public places that ensured effective patrolling.... Due to the stringent security arrangements of police, no untoward incident occurred in the city and law and situation remained in control, he add

Join our Whatsapp channel RAWALPINDI: City Traffic Police Rawalpindi has issued a special traffic plan for Rawalpindi city for Chand Raat and Eid-ul-Fitr with deployment of 646 traffic police personnel.A spokesman for the city traffic police said that a total of 646 officers and wardens including 10 DSPs, 138 inspectors, 498 traffic wardens and traffic assistants will perform special duties on Chaand Raat.On Chaand Raat, special duties of traffic police have been assigned at bazaars, markets, sh

They urged the nation to fight the enemy with the ‘spirit of national unity’.... He said that though the war against terrorism was not easy, the people would fight it with the ‘spirit of national unity and cohesion’.... They said they would help security forces fight the common enemy and won’t let any political group exploit the incident to serve their political ends. Published in Dawn, March 6th, 2022....

ISLAMABAD: Senior journalist and a staunch unionist Pervez Shaukat passed away early Friday morning at the age of 68.He was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Rawalpindi.... He had been ill for the last few months.... Amir Mir prayed for the elevated status of the soul and patience for the bereaved family. The National Press Club and the Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists( RIUJ) also condoled the demise of Pervez Shaukat. Published in Dawn, January 27th, 2024....

Join our Whatsapp channel Karachi police on Friday announced that they would deploy 5, 367 personnel as part of their security plan for the next day’s Youm-i-Ali procession, according to a press release. The release stated that strict security measures had been taken along the route of the procession — which commemorates the martyrdom of Hazrat Ali — and that the personnel deployed were ready to deal with any possible situation.“ The personnel on security duty include 76 senior officers, 725 NGO